Carnival mulls deployment details

CARNIVAL Cruise Line is “looking at all kinds of different factors” to determine which ships will sail full-time in Australia in 2020 ( CW 28 Sep), the line’s vice president & general mgr Australia Jennifer Vandekreeke told CW.

Vandekreeke confirmed the line doesn’t plan to separate Carnival

Spirit from its fans in Australia, noting Carnival hadn’t finalised anything else beyond that. “What I will say is that Carnival

Legend is going into drydock in May and she’s going to come back looking super schmick... and then there won’t be as much of a difference between Carnival

Legend and Carnival Spirit,” Vandekreeke said.

Carnival was unlikely to send one of the 5,200-pax LNG ships it has on order down to Australia “any time soon,” she said

“I’m not saying it’s not going to happen ever but I don’t think we have any plans.”

“The destinations that our guests love to go to, you look at Isle of Pines, you look at Mystery Island, they’re destinations that are beautiful for a certain number of guests.”

Carnival will announce its 2020 deployment plans in May, but in the meantime Vandekreeke said Carnival planned to take a look at what had worked over the past five years and then “probably expand on that”.

“I don’t see us honestly making any massive changes in terms of the destinations that we go to because we’ve found that our guests are pretty happy with the destinations that we have,” the executive explained.

This year Carnival Cruise Line is celebrating five years of cruising from Australia.

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